NEW DELHI: With the minimum temperature falling to 7.4 degrees Celsius in the past 24 hours — two degrees below normal for the season — Delhi's air quality deteriorated slightly on Sunday.
As the overall

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says an estimated 12.6 million people are dying each year globally from ‘unhealthy environment’ alone.
This is one in every four casualties across the globe.

Sri Lanka has emerged as one of the cleanest countries in the region in a global Mid-Year Pollution Index for 2015.
Ranking among the 12 cleanest countries in Asia, Sri Lanka comes far ahead of regional

Extensive surveys on public perception of air pollution and air quality, carried out in Sri Lanka in 2014, under the FK Exchange program. The survey on Air Quality Management in Sri Lanka is carried out

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) yesterday claimed to have taken measures to put an end to fly ash from the first coal-fired plant in Norochcholai causing respiratory problems to humans apart from affecting

The Sri Lankan government formalised its commitment to host and support the Integrated Conference of Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2014 and Intergovernmental eighth Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport